D.4 Customer Councils

Because vendors alone do not determine the useful purposes to which technology will be put, the SNIA has organized two customer councils to solicit customer representation within the SNIA and customer input into storage networking strategies.

The Customer Executive Council is composed of volunteer CIOs, VPs, and other executives from end-user companies that have strategic and business interests in enterprise storage solutions. The Customer Advisory Council is composed of administrators, SAN engineers, architects, and support personnel who have practical, day-to-day responsibility for shared storage operations. These two end-user organizations provide both strategic and tactical input into the SNIA and thereby help to establish priorities and shape the future of storage networking.